In this blog I will collect information, resources, materials, and experiences that relate to the theory and practice of children's rights to participation in the widest sense.
Over the years, with a limited number of people, I have shared useful information that I came across. Through this blog I want to make relevant information available to a wider audience while at the same time building a site that can be revisited for useful information and links. Henk van Beers

Sunday, 1 April 2012

The report "My Life My Suggestion" is released by Cambodian Children and Young People’s Movement for Child Rights (CCYMCR), a network of children and youth from 20 organisations operating in 16 provinces in Cambodia. The report highlights the dire situation that Cambodia’s children face in their daily lives and provides a number of important recommendations to engage the Royal Government of Cambodia in solving the problems that affect the living situation and development of children. Statistics reveal that twenty-six percent of the children surveyed said they have never received care and warmth from their parents and a quarter said they were forced to do various dangerous or unsuitable jobs, including pulling carts, performing wage labour, begging, working in rubber plantations, working at construction sites and factories, scavenging for scraps, logging and finding firewood. Also documented is the limited extent of the country’s child healthcare services, as twenty-three percent of the survey participants stated that hospitals were far from their homes, and that health centres were small, understaffed and under-equipped. Moreover, twenty-seven percent of the children said they faced regular discrimination on the basis of poverty and race, and for having disabilities or suffering from HIV/AIDS. This children’s report was sent to UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in 2010.